Hospitals & Asylums
Chapter 7 National Cemeteries
§279 Inclosure,
headstones, and registers
In the arrangement of the national cemeteries established
for the burial of deceased soldiers and sailors, the Secretary of the Army is
directed to have the same inclosed with a good and
substantial stone or iron fence; and to cause each grave to be marked with a
small headstone or block which shall be of durable stone, and of such design
and weight as shall keep it in place when set, and shall bear the name of the
soldier and the name of his State inscribed thereon, when the same are known,
and also with the number of the grave inscribed thereon, corresponding with the
number opposite to the name of the party in a register of burials to be kept at
each cemetery and at the Office of the Army, which shall set forth the name,
rank, company, regiment, and date of death of the officer or soldier; or if
these are unknown, it shall be so ordered.
(R.S. §4877; derived from Feb. 22, 1867, ch. 61, §1, 14 Stat. 399, June 8, 1872, ch.
368, 17 Stat. 345; Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 229, 17 Stat.
545; Repealed. Pub. L. 93–43, §7(a)(1), (4), (5), (7), June 18, 1973, 87 Stat.
82) related to inclosure, headstones, and registers.
See section 2404(a), (c), (d) of Title 38.